In Neurocracy, it’s up to you to solve a murder mystery through the internet’s greatest resource, Wikipedia And it all comes to a head next week Image credit:Pyrofoux You might not think of it as one, but Wikipedia is a game. It has untold numbers of characters and stories, each page an interactive slate with your mouse and hand acting as the choice maker for what you learn next, thus impacting your following choices....

In pensive browser game Agentia, you can explore and assemble poetry as a beetle, a dinosaur or an island Deleuze and Guattar ’em up Image credit:Richard A Carter / Rock Paper Shotgun Every time you load up Agentia you are reincarnated as a different creature. “Creature” is perhaps too narrow a word - the game’s “playable characters” range from geese, microscopic life and triceratops to menhirs and small rocky islands. Each forms the heart of a diamond of delicately drawn, isometric grid terrain with a baby mobile canopy of clouds and sun....

In strategy card game Roots Devour you are that tree the villagers warn people away from If an Elder God falls in the woods with nobody around to hear it… Image credit:GCORES PUBLISHING I recently moved to a suburban neighbourhood where there is lots of relatively “wild” parkland and a few raggedy patches of woodland. I like to walk in the woods around evening time, after a hard day of writing stupid listicles about Call Of Duty ....

In this austerely beautiful moonbase management game, “your only choices will be impossible ones” 30 days to keep a fragile sisterhood alive Image credit:Interactive Tragedy, Limited If you dream of playing a game set inside a diagram of a spacebase from an Usborne Cutaway book published in the 1990s, Kuu is probably for you. If you dream of being very sad on the Moon, tending sickly plants for 30 days by Earthlight, then Kuu is also, probably, for you....

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle could be MachineGames and Bethesda’s new Indy game Lucasfilm domain registrations surface ahead of Xbox showcase Indiana Jones And The Great Circle appears to be the title of Bethesda and Lucasfilm’s new Indiana Jones game created by Wolfenstein developers MachineGames, if a recent brace of domain registrations are any indication. As spotted by dashing internet tomb-plunderer Kurakasis, who is also the originator of this report on a potential Horizon MMO from Guild Wars publisher NCSoft , Lucasfilm registered several domains on 9th January 2024, including “indianajonesandthegreatcirclegame....

Infinity Nikki Observation quest answers: All the answers to Professor Aventura’s questions Here’s the answer to every question Professor Aventura asks you in his Observation quests Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Looking for all the answers to Professor Aventura’s Observation questions in Infinity Nikki? Professor Aventura is a recurring NPC in Infinity Nikki , one who delights in travelling Miraland, laying in wait for you at key locations, and then pouncing on you with a question about the surrounding area....

It’s a worryingly perfect time to revive Assassin’s Creed’s old social stealth multiplayer I had not thought death had undone so many Image credit:Ubisoft In a post last week about Steam’s unhelpfully vague generative AI disclosure policies , Nic touched on “that most insidious side-effect of GenAI”, the culture of paranoia it has bred among players who find themselves peering at every remotely uncanny piece of video game art, hunting for signs of machine-learning metastasis....

KeeperRL, ambitious blend of Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, hits 1.0 after eleven years More updates to come Image credit:Electric Succubi Back in 2014, KeeperRL had a handful of alpha releases and a successful IndieGogo funding campaign, and was due to be finished that year. Then the ambitious Dwarf Fortress -lite or Dungeon Keeper -heavy made its way through the player-voted Steam Greenlgiht process , at which point its developer decided, hey, why not work on this game for longer....

King Legacy codes list [February 2026]: Free Beli, gems and stat resets Codes you can redeem in King Legacy for free Beli, Gems, and more! Image credit:Roblox/Venture Lagoons Looking for the latest King Legacy codes? King Legacy is a Roblox experience based on the anime One Piece (which led to a name-change from its original title, King Piece, for copyright reasons). King Legacy codes are created by the developer of the game and passed onto its players, so they can be redeemed for free in-game currency and other rewards....

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 delays its medieval RPG hustling until early next year Saddle down Image credit:Deep Silver Put your mortar and pestle down, my herb-smooshing friend. The peasant-quelling RPG antics of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 won’t be releasing this year after all, say developers Warhorse in a video message to fans . “We aimed for the end of the year, and almost made it,” said PR man Tobi Stolz-Zwilling. “Almost is not good enough though, so unfortunately we slipped to 2025....

Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess looks like a beautiful blend of Yokai, Pikmin, and tower defense With dancing and swords Image credit:Capcom When we first saw Capcom’s upcoming action strategy game Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess at last year’s Xbox Games Showcase , there wasn’t much to say other than that the game looks gorgeous. Thanks to last night’s Xbox Partner showcase, we now know that it’s a blend of Japanese mythology, sword-fights, Pikmin and tower defense....

League of Legends is set for a big overhaul in 2027, as Riot lay “the groundwork for League’s next era” “We’re often asked if we’re going to make League of Legends 2 someday. The answer to that has been and remains no” Image credit:Riot Games League of Legends is set for some big changes as part of an overhaul targeting a 2027 release, Riot Games have confirmed following a report on the coming revamp by Bloomberg....

Let the Right Ones in and sell them eldritch chips in Hellmart, a jobbing horror game with far too much smiling Give correct change or else they Change Image credit:Gaze In Games There is a woman trying to get into my supermarket. She’s banging on the sliding door glass, an urgent silhouette against swirling fog and darkness. My manager told me it’s not safe outside at night, but the woman doesn’t seem afraid, for all her banging....

Let’s all go steal porn from a dead billionaire’s bunker Point, click and hurl Image credit:Pol Clarissou Friends, it is time to break into Jeff Bezos’s bunker and steal his porn. Jeff Bezos - so sorry! I mean J### B#### - doesn’t need his porn anymore because he’s dead. Unfortunately, the bunker is now full of “RICH MAN DEATH RADIATION”, making it unsafe for humans. Fortunately, the people’s pervert committee have supplied us with some remote-operated drones that are capable of firing clones of themselves in the direction of the camera....

Lethal Company’s first update in months makes it harder to be a shovel-armed killing machine or speedrunner More entities due in future updates as developer shifts away from adding endgame content Image credit:Zeekerss Co-op smash-hit Lethal Company has received its first update in a couple of months, and it’s a biggie! Version 50 brings a new map and some new creatures to contend with, alongside some changes that make being a shovel-wielding monster-slayer or speedrunning the game a bit less easy....

Manor Lords dev staves off early access disappointment by explaining his game isn’t here to murder Total War I am once again reminding you that hype is short for hyperbole Image credit:Hooded Horse Slavic Magic, the sole creator behind anticipated (sub genres forthcoming) strategy game Manor Lords , has written a transparent and refreshingly to-the-point blog post on Steam addressing both expectations and future updates. Specifically, Slavic Magic aka Greg Manor Lords has taken time to outline exactly what his game - currently the most wishlisted on Steam, ahead of Hades 2 - isn’t ....

Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy is currently free to keep from Epic An underappreciated gem Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy was one of 2021’s biggest surprises, succeeding where Square Enix’s Avengers game failed by finding an identity beyond its movie counterpart thanks to strong writing. Alas, it didn’t meet Square Enix’s sales expectations . Now it’s free via the Epic Games Store. The Epic Games Store has spent the holiday giving away a new free game each day....

Massive Skyrim mod Lordbound soft launches, with lots of choice-heavy questing in a war-torn valley bigger than Solstheim Over 40 quests, over 50 dungeons and “the biggest main quest you’ve ever played in Skyrim”, say modders who aren’t pulling any punches Image credit:Bethesda / The Lordbound Team I dunno about you, but I usually dig a big Skyrim mod that threatens to make my number of hours spent padding around Tamriel even more ludicrous....

Metal Slug Tactics’ demo is pure nostalgia for better and worse I feel snails have already solved the need for metal slugs actually Image credit:Dotemu This week, we’re highlighting the best demos you can play during Steam Next Fest , which starts June 10th. We’re calling this Wishlisted , in partnership with Eurogamer and VG247. I’ve always loved the art of the Metal Slug series of side-scrolling shooters, so I’ve been keeping a keen eye on the fetching grid strategy antics of Metal Slug Tactics ever since it was first announced ....

Metropolis 1998 is a fetching isometric blend of SimCity and The Sims, with customisable house interiors Come try the demo Image credit:YesBox According to certain Terran lore, God created the universe in seven days. Well, I got up this morning and made a small suburban village with a hospital, school, police station and a cafe in the space of 20 minutes. This is the backwater burg of Edwitherington. Population: 8 - one for every non-residential building in town....